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How Apple Can Bring Down the Price of Apple Vision Headset From $3,500 (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 2 years ago by ndr to c/apple_enthusiast

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I really hope they won't cut the quality of the screen for the cheaper model. If the experience gets worse people will start having the same issues as the Meta Quest, where text on screens will be hard to read. If things become less fluent users will start to feel dizzy and it will feel less natural to us the device.

I was looking forward to getting one, but the $3,500 price is just way too expensive and if not many people get the device, developers won't care about the device. And that would be really bad for external app support.

[–] ndr 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Vision Pro has a lot of high-end components beside the screen, but I’m still afraid that the display represents a very high percentage of the cost.

The more I think about it, the trickier it gets: like the M2, it could be swapped for something cheaper, but then could it drive that monster of a display?; or all the cameras and sensors, but then wouldn’t the pass through look bad?

I guess they could do away with the fancy audio. I don’t know if OpticID is already easy to do once you have eye tracking, otherwise they may remove it too.

[–] StarManta 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My assumption about how the chips work is that the M2 does the computing work while the R1 does the work of processing the camera input and display output. So the M2’s processing power is not relevant to the resolution of the displays.

[–] ndr 1 points 1 year ago

I find it hard to believe that the R1 is enough, because the M2 would be overkill then.

I guess we’ll have to wait for more reviews/analyses.

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